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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Apple Business Essentials

    Score8.3 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Apple Business Essentials is a subscription service that brings together device management, 24/7 support, and cloud storage. It enables small business to manage every iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TVs throughout the business.

    $8.25

    per device, per month

    Jamf School

    Score9.7 out of 10
    N/AJamf School is a purpose-built mobile device management solution (MDM) for schools that gives users the ability to deploy and manage Apple devices. Jamf School management system also pairs with three apps, Jamf School Teacher, Jamf School Parent and Jamf School Student.N/A
    Pricing
    Apple Business EssentialsJamf School
    Editions & Modules
    Fleetsmith Managed
    $8.25
    per device, per month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Apple Business EssentialsJamf School
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsFree unlimited trial for up to 10 devices Device Intelligence free for unlimited devices iOS/tvOS devices free during beta period
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    User Ratings
    Apple Business EssentialsJamf School
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.1
    (21 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    8.5
    (19 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.8
    (21 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Apple Business EssentialsJamf School
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Apple
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    Jamf Software, LLC
    Jamf school is amazing at device management as far as tracking devices, installing apps, removing apps, pushing out updates, and putting persons in specific groups or classes based on the needs of the student/teacher. There could be improvement in the instance where you send an iPad for repair and it returns with a new SN and you have to swap out the license from one SN to another.
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    Pros
    Apple
    • Ease of use to manage. Some other solutions can be a little hard to navigate. Fleetsmith is intuitive.
    • DEP Enrollment is really nice. If you are shipping a laptop out to the user you can set their password and when they turn on their computer they will have access.
    • Adding software to be pushed out. Pretty easy to do.
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    Jamf Software, LLC
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    Cons
    Apple
    • We were told that this was in the works and it would be implemented at the beginning of the year 2019. That has still not happened and whenever we ask about this functionality we cannot get a good answer.
    • Management of devices that are already in the field—we were told that in order to use Fleetsmith as we would like (pushing apps to devices) we would have to get each device and set them up from a Mac.
    • Integration with Windows.
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    Jamf Software, LLC
    • Steep learning curve
    • Cannot track MacBook locations
    • Unassigning and Reassigning devices when changing SNs from repairs is complicated
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    Usability
    Apple
    No answers on this topic
    Jamf Software, LLC
    For the most part, Jamf School does everything it is programmed to do. However, there are a few instances where we have run into snags. This is to be expected with any software though and working customer support has always been helpful. Customer support does their best to help with each scenario we've had issues with.
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    Support Rating
    Apple
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    Alternatives Considered
    Apple
    The primary products we checked out were Mosyle, JAMF, and SimpleMDM. In the end it really came down to the simplicity of our needs and the simplicity of Fleetsmith's approach being in tight harmony. We kicked the tires, hard, for about a month and then dove all the way in.
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    Jamf Software, LLC
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    Return on Investment
    Apple
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